#author

In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively. ↗

— James Schuyler

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A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another. ↗

— James MacGregor Burns

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To see and be acquainted with strangers, in especial with men in honour and authority. ↗

— Thomas Cavendish

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To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution. ↗

— John Engler

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The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority. ↗

— John T. Flynn

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Many contemporary authors drink more than they write. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

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Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them. ↗

— Norman Lamm

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Inspiring others is the pathway to your own discoveries ↗

— Robin Craig Clark

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